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Microsoft just wants to take on everyone - and that included Google. Well they have demoed their desktop search technology and have included it as part of their MSN ToolBar as well. It should come out soon… “soon” is quite flexible to be honest, but they are coming. Oh the desktop search wars are getting [...]

Red Herring has an interesting take on Blinkx and its 15-minutes of fame. They make a good point, but I still think blogs are an instant feedback loop for companies. This is real-time economy at work - producers and users are seperated by a few clicks.BlinkX has been listening to bloggers - who are essentially [...]

One of India’s fastest growing phone companies, Reliance Infocomm has hired former cops to recover money from their defaulting subscribers. The CDMA-based mobile carrier has been selling service at ridiculously low prices and has signed up the sort of people who would well, not get a credit card in United States. Most of the defaulting [...]

A lot has been said, a little has been written that makes sense and much has been misconstrued about Microsoft’s not-so-secret digital music/DRM project called Janus. Like most Microsoft products it is late, and if history is any indicator, then is going to be half-baked when it gets out of the door sometime in October [...]

God has finally punished me. I was playing with StinkPad, plugging IPod into it to charge it, but today when I reverted to the OS-X machine, well my beloved miniPOD died. Just simply keeled over. It is the hard drive because the computer cannot find the disk! This is not good - no music for [...]

A lot of people have said a lot about Apple suing Real, and Real hacking Apple’s format. I just want to point out - this is clear capitulation on part of Real Networks, and its failure to gets it own online music service going. People like and want IPod-friendly music, and everything else just does [...]